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common wisdom

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Imagination allows us to escape the predictable. It enables us to reply to the common wisdom that we cannot soar by saying, 'Just watch!' Bill Bradley

You know, it's sort of common wisdom among New York publishers that short story collections don't make money. Chad Harbach

Common wisdom dictates that the vice president should provide balance to the ticket by representing a different part of the country, another set of experiences, or a basketful of electoral votes. Madeleine M. Kunin

He gossips habitually he lacks the common wisdom to keep still that deadly enemy of man, his own tongue. Mark Twain

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